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Learning from loss: Scam victim, detective share tips to protect others Imagine getting a phone call from your child in tears who tells you their bank account is empty. That’s exactly what happened to Hugo resident Lisa Hippe. But it wasn’t just her daughter Jasmine’s account. The accounts that belonged to her and her husband Ted were also drained — to the tune of over $40,000. “The reality of ‘Oh my God. What did I just do?’” hit,” Hippe said. “I hate this. It’s never going to leave me.” Hippe received a text message asking her if she had recently charged something. She responded “no” to that text and was subsequently contacted by someone claiming to be a part of a Huntington Bank fraud alert investigation team, working with the FBI. The person told her that they were investigating bank employees at local branches for transferring money out of customers’ accounts. “He told me that my accounts had been compromised,” Hippe explained. He told her that he could see wire transfers were set up to transfer her money out of her accounts. To protect her money, she was advised to withdraw all of the money
from her account and to put it on a “safe” Chase card that the scammer loaded onto her phone. The scammer told her that there was a $20,000 withdrawal limit, so Hippe headed to Maplewood and subsequently White Bear Lake. “I was in front of the bank, and I was freaking out, but he told me there was an undercover cop inside the bank, so I was safe,” she recalled. “He made me feel comfortable … I was not thinking about a scam. It was not even in my realm.” Hippe said she was convinced it was legit because the person knew all her account numbers. “He was playing on my fear. That’s what got me going first was the fear that somebody was going to take all of my money,” she said. She said another convincing factor was that he was able to load the “safe” card onto her phone. She realized it was a cam when Jasmine called her and called the sheriff’s office right away. “I told them this is what happened, and I want you to meet me at the bank tomorrow so I can get my money out of the ATM, and he said, ‘I’m sorry, but that money is no longer yours, it’s gone.’ That broke me.”
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Hippe is retired and Ted is hoping to retire soon, too. “We work all our whole lives to support ourselves and our families ... We are looking at him being retired sooner than later, paying our
“He was playing on my fear. That’s what got me going first was the fear that somebody was going to take all of my money,” Lisa Hippe Hugo Resident
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house off and being in a good spot, and now we have to start from zero again,” she said. “I don’t want to go anywhere. I don’t want to buy anything online … I’m freaked out about paying my bills. I’m not comfortable,” she explained. Perhaps a positive is that Hippe has learned a lot through this process about scams, what to watch out for and how to protect herself and her family going forward. She offers the following tips:
Barb Hinrichs, 69, may not have her hands and feet, but there is so much she is still able to do like snorkeling, hiking, water skiing, driving and more. “I've tried to look at it in a positive way … You can either sit around and be sorry for yourself, or you can move forward with getting on with your life and doing as much as you possibly can,” she said. “I like to think that there are more things I can do than can't.” Twelve years ago,
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The Lexington City Council has approved a preliminary plat for a Chipotle Mexican Grill restaurant to be built in the Northway Shopping Center after Contour Development LLC and Menlo Capital Partners presented a preliminary plat and planned unit development (PUD) for a proposed sixlot commercial/retail development. The purpose of the preliminary plat is to create two new lots, one for a Chipotle and one for a future retail building (See “Chipotle restaurant a possibility at Lexington Retail Center,” Quad Community Press, March 25, 2025). The PUD is for the entire site. It includes both buildings of the Northway Shopping Center, the AutoZone and Mary’s Montessori School. A detailed traffic and parking study was completed in October 2024 for the project. City code requires 484 parking spaces collectively for the project. Under existing conditions, approximately 391 parking spaces are available at the mall.
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